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Setup & Installation / Re: Tested three systems with ArcaOS ('98, '01, '07), one of them worked
« on: February 28, 2023, 07:01:13 pm »
What Dave said...
quote]Well - I fought with installing ArcaOS for quite a while on that Dell Precision M60. ArcaOS would boot, then it would say I have to "fix" the partition on the drive -- but then that would fail, saying it couldn't fix it. Don't have a photo, so I forget the exact wording. The only way I could get it to go was to blast away all existing partitions using a GPARTED boot CD (it previously had Windows7 installed on the drive -- probably partitioned to use the entire drive since it's only an 80GB). The stock ArcaOS installer wasn't giving me options to delete any existing partitions.[/quote]
The "fix" thing indicates that you have not properly partitioned the drive. READ the appropriate information at the Arca Noae wiki (link posted earlier). You do need to create properly aligned partitions (done by using MiniLVM). There are tools (based on DFSEE) to handle various disk problems.
quote]Well - I fought with installing ArcaOS for quite a while on that Dell Precision M60. ArcaOS would boot, then it would say I have to "fix" the partition on the drive -- but then that would fail, saying it couldn't fix it. Don't have a photo, so I forget the exact wording. The only way I could get it to go was to blast away all existing partitions using a GPARTED boot CD (it previously had Windows7 installed on the drive -- probably partitioned to use the entire drive since it's only an 80GB). The stock ArcaOS installer wasn't giving me options to delete any existing partitions.[/quote]
The "fix" thing indicates that you have not properly partitioned the drive. READ the appropriate information at the Arca Noae wiki (link posted earlier). You do need to create properly aligned partitions (done by using MiniLVM). There are tools (based on DFSEE) to handle various disk problems.